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  1. 11 hours ago, Tex48 said:

    I looked into Vandy season tickets. They also play Bama at home this year. It makes sense to me to buy for the Texas game and sell for the rest. Bama fans usually turn up for the game in Nasheville.

    This is what I did for the Michigan game this year. Hoping it works out. They haven’t announced the cost of the season tickets yet.

     

    Not sure what the secondary market is for Vandy games? When I went to college there, games always had lots of empty seats. 

  2. I live a little north of Detroit. Great place to live, lots of fun stuff to do. Some really cool architecture. Things have changed since I moved here in 2009. Some run down parts of town, but no worse than any of the other big cities I’ve lived in. 

    Ann Arbor is a nice college town. I work there periodically, and it’s a fun place to visit. The big house is a great place to watch a game. I take my son to a game every year, and it’s always a good atmosphere.

    Detroit isn’t particularly close to AA, and the game day traffic can be bad. If you don’t plan to get there really early, 14 can be a tough slog. If you can make it work in AA, I would. 

    If you’re just looking for a cheap place to stay, Ypsilanti is a drab town, but it has a state university, Eastern Michigan. I bet there will be hotels there, and it’s much closer than Detroit. Lansing is about equidistant to AA relative to Detroit. It’s not a town I enjoy visiting, though MSU has a beautiful campus. Another option. 

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  3. 10 hours ago, Woodrow Call said:

    WTF does that mean if you can't get it done on the field? The players Memphis has now are better, and Memphis has as many players in the NFL. End of discussion. 

    What do you mean? The point was that ISU plays down to teams worse than them every year. ISU was a 9 point favorite, was ranked 23 spots higher in SP+, and had a higher composite recruiting ranking. You stated Memphis had more talent than ISU and the players they have now are better, but all the above disagrees. Teams play up and beat more talented teams all the time.

  4. Maybe if you build your culture around out-efforting more talented programs, it’s hard to find the effort against the schools with similar or worse talent. Seems like ISU plays shitty against a bad team every year. 

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  5. 1 hour ago, 'stache said:

    It would make sense to go to record against OU as the highest ranked common opponent, but the rule says The “next highest” opponent meaning below OSU and Texas. That would be both ISU and KSU at 6-3 because the scenario requires ISU to beat KSU to knock them out of the tie. UT is 2-0, OSU is 1-1, so UT wins that two way tie breaker.

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    Good point. I assume the conference doesn’t see it that way,  but that’s the way it is worded. 

  6. 3 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:

    This guy also seems to think it would be Texas if was a 3 way tie between OU, Oklahoma State, and Texas. The confusion here in this scenario is if head to head comes into play since all 3 teams didn't play each other but OU and Oklahoma State would be the only two teams with a head to head win out of that group. 

     

    I think the confusion is if the tiebreaker re-ranks when it restarts. If not, then the above scenario holds as Texas has the best record against the number 4 teams. If we start all over and rerank with Oklahoma as 1, then OSU has a better record against the highest common opponent, OU.

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  7. 4 minutes ago, Texas Wahoo said:

    Ok. So if Texas loses, OU wins, OSU wins, and KSU loses:

    There is a three way tie for first with Texas, OSU, and OU. The first tiebreaker doesn’t do anything, because no team beat all of the others. So we look for the next highest placed common opponent(s). You are supposed to treat them a group if tied, but do you include teams that one of the teams didn’t play, like WVU if they win?  That is not clear to me. 
     

    If this website is accurate, Texas is in no matter what happens in the other three games in this scenario. 
    http://bball.notnothing.net/big12.php?sport=fb

    I think is the next highest common opponent. I think it comes down to Kansas vs Tech’s ranking order. 

  8. Just now, Pato del Muerto said:

    That’s twice now they’ve used that te screen where the linemen jailbreak downfield and the te crosses behind them and appears to catch the ball beyond the los 

    Just coming here to say that! So frustrating. And reviewable, as well. 

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  9. "... the pride of Lake Orion"

     

    That's the same Lake Orion (LOHorn) from my handle. Maybe I can get to the bottom of all this. Or maybe I am Conner Stallions myself and this is all part of my reconnaissance for when the Horns play Meat Chicken in the playoffs.

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  10. 1 minute ago, Spider2YBanana said:

    Fucking seriously. I don't give a fuck that we're up by 10. We could be up by 13. 

    It’s the not recognizing how to be the better team that gets me. We had won everything up to that point. Kick the FG, keep winning. Why give them a chance to have a win? The a blocked fg occurs and now they have a series of wins. Why do that? We aren’t the underdogs that need to take chances. 

  11. 1 hour ago, Pancho said:

     

    Yes, they would. 

    If you are in higher ed, you know one of the major issues is tuition billing. Students have been very active across the country in making sure their tuition bills are itemized so they know specifically what they are paying for and where their money is going. Students are fighting back on junk fees with tuition and on obscure things on the bill in which they don't know what it is or where, specifically, that money is going. 

    If students find out their tuition is eventually going to pay for the football player who sits next to them in class, then that will cause an uproar. 

    As far a laws as to what student athletic fees can be used for, that is on an institution by institution basis. Larger P5 institutions have optional fees like UT where you pay for it if you want and it gives you access. As long as it's optional, it's fine because students know what they are signing up for. You can't just backdoor it on to tuition for all students. 

     

    Tuition billing is a major item, especially post-COVID and campus fees. None of that changes the fact that students have very little power to change the athletic fees, or really any fees. And they don't have to be called athletics fees. My institution has "no fees", just a flat rate for classes. But it transfers several million dollars to the athletic department every year.

    Most public universities aren't even required openly disclose them, excepting some laws in VA and the Carolinas. You have to make a request. Private institutions are free to do as the wish, though there is some stuff related to receiving federal monies. Still, in general, schools don't need to openly share with students what their fees are, or where they are going. And most schools are not inclined to do so.

    In some cases students have complained about the athletic fees, passed student congress complaints about the fees and projected raises in them, and the boards have approved them anyway over those complaints. Students must pay what the tuition and fees are, and the universities set those as the wish. Students can raise a fuss, and try to shine a light on it, but the university is under no obligation to answer to those complaints. 

    And, frankly, students should know that their tuition money is already going to the football or basketball player next to them. Be it through "institutional support" for scholarships, athletics dorms or facilities, or food. Probably not at Texas, Michigan, or Alabama, but most everywhere else. It's only a matter of time till someone gets NIL connected. 

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  12. 2 hours ago, Pancho said:

    I work in higher ed as well. 

    The institution caught doing this would be sued into Bolivia 

    I can’t fix my post, but coaches cannot directly donate to NIL collectives. I think they could donate to their personal foundation and have that foundation donate to the collective, but I’m not sure. At any rate, “institutional support” will find its way into NIL collectives, if it isn’t already. 

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